Why shouldn’t I use sudo?

Also, a note to JetBrains…

If your permissions are not set correctly, you will also run into this issue if you use the WebStorm or IntelliJ IDEA IDEs from JetBrains (my editor of choice is Sublime Text 2 but I do evaluate other IDEs all the time) when creating a new project based on the Node.js Express App template. I hope the Intellij folks handle this more gracefully in the future (ideally by allowing you to fix the permissions problem from inside the app by entering your password and clicking a button).

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Aral Balkan is an activist, designer, and developer. He’s ⅓ of Ind.ie, a tiny social enterprise working for social justice in the digital age.